Personal Effectiveness
You are your own business. No-one else is responsible for your development’. Consider this statement in the light of personal development and, in particular, how we learn. Draw on learning theory and provide personal examples to identify and examine your preferred learning style. Conduct a skills audit to assess the current levels of your own transferable skills, (you do not need to submit this) reflecting on and developing insights into, your own behaviour and its impact on others.
Introduction
Organisations today are witnessing high levels of competition. In the advent of the recession we have seen many organisation struggles to survive and some have gone burst. Organisations today are on a look out for employee that can demonstrate their ability to learn and develop innovate ideas, products and services that can give them an edge on competition. With so many graduate and not enough jobs, its all about you and your ability to sell yourself, that can take you to the next level of you career. This establishes the need for Personal development. Understanding the nature of learning, and the different styles in which people learn, is crucial, in order to promote individual personal development and business profitability within organizations credo reference (2009a)
What is Personal Development
According to Guirdham (2002) Personal development is about satisfying our potential, increasing our ability and continuous improvement at work and life with meaning and satisfaction. This can be distinguished from organisational development which looks at the individual fulfilling organisation needs, while on the other hand Personal development addresses individual work development and lifestyle issues (David and Stephen, 2010). Guirdham (2002, p.132) goes on to argues that the choice to develop our self is in our own hand.
‘ Other can set the scene, supply role models, give encouragement, provide support, propose methods and means, set up mechanism, give advice,
Introduction
Organisations today are witnessing high levels of competition. In the advent of the recession we have seen many organisation struggles to survive and some have gone burst. Organisations today are on a look out for employee that can demonstrate their ability to learn and develop innovate ideas, products and services that can give them an edge on competition. With so many graduate and not enough jobs, its all about you and your ability to sell yourself, that can take you to the next level of you career. This establishes the need for Personal development. Understanding the nature of learning, and the different styles in which people learn, is crucial, in order to promote individual personal development and business profitability within organizations credo reference (2009a)
What is Personal Development
According to Guirdham (2002) Personal development is about satisfying our potential, increasing our ability and continuous improvement at work and life with meaning and satisfaction. This can be distinguished from organisational development which looks at the individual fulfilling organisation needs, while on the other hand Personal development addresses individual work development and lifestyle issues (David and Stephen, 2010). Guirdham (2002, p.132) goes on to argues that the choice to develop our self is in our own hand.
‘ Other can set the scene, supply role models, give encouragement, provide support, propose methods and means, set up mechanism, give advice,
Cited: in Honey, P. and Mumford, A. (1986). The Manual of Learning Styles. Maidenhead: Homey.